Fanny Edgeworth to Mrs Edgeworth - Chamouny expedition - affection of the Swiss for Pictet - Mont Blanc and Von Hamel's ascent - Swiss peasants - Arago's disagreement with Pictet

Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Edgeworth from Pregny - Lucy Edgeworth's health - R. Chenevix - the carriage - servants

Harriet Edgeworth to Dr D.A. Beaufort from Pregny - Swiss carts and carriages - Swiss manures - keeping cows - hay - Swiss peasants - maize - hemp working - Swiss oligarchies

Fanny Edgeworth to Honora Edgeworth from Pregny - tour with Dumont round the Lake of Geneva - the caléche - Lausanne - Madame de Montolieu - Viernon - Vevay and the Bartons - Château de Blonay - Château de Chillon - St Maurice - Opinion of Dumont - 'Les châteaux en Espagne' - dinner at Coppet - Baron de Stein - French politics - Duc de Broglie on England - Alfieri's 'Maria Stuarda' - Pastoret's concealment during French revolution - Sismondi

Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort from Pregny - tour round the Lake of Geneva Madame de Montolieu - Dumont - Madame Polier de Bottens - 'Le cercle à la mode' - Vevay - the Bartons - Château de Blonay, château de Chillon, château d'Hauteville - 'Les Châteaux en Espagne'

Honora Edgeworth to Charles (Sneyd) Edgeworth at Vienna - books sent out to him - marriages of E. Mulloy and N. Keegan, Edgeworthstown servants - E. Mulloy's love affair - new servants - Charles (Sneyd) Edgeworth's finances - visit of Mrs Beaufort and Louisa - Maria Edgeworth's Scottish visit - end by Maria Edgeworth - Doblado's Letters from Spain - Madame Campan's Memoirs - O'Meara's book - Kotzebue

Maria Edgeworth to Honora Edgeworth from Kinneil House - Stirling - Clackmannan Tower - ferry to Falkirk - Scotch post horses - coal and iron country near Falkirk - Rob Roy and the Glasgow scenes - Ennui: the road to Glenthorn and the road to Kinneil - Mrs Dugald Stewart and her family - description of interior of Kinneil House - ghost of Lady Lilburn - Dugald Stewart - Blanco-White and Doblado's Letters - Dr…

Sophy Fox to Louisa Beaufort from Genoa - Mrs Napier - Lough Park visit - theatre at Paris - French politics - journey to Italy - bed curtains - Nevers, Moulins, Lyons, Les Échelles Chambéry, Savoy, Mont Cenis, Turin

Harriet Edgeworth to Fanny Edgeworth with Sophy Fox on wedding journey - return of Honora Edgeworth from England, out of health, harrassed by Charles (Sneyd) Edgeworth and the Sneyds - new furniture at Edgeworthstown - Lucy Edgeworth's health - Basset Saunderson (deaf) - Anna and Mary Beddoes - Harry and Lucy - William Beaufort and family - Maria Edgeworth and Lovell Edgeworth - F. Beaufort's conversation - telegraphic kite - Fleet Street fire - the Stricklands -…

Fanny Edgeworth to Elizabeth Waller (Aunt Bess) from Florence - conversation on weather - New Year gaiety after end of mourning for Grand Duke - numbers of English at Florence - Florentines affect English manners and dress - music - the Allotts - Pictures - deterioration of Madonna della Seggiola - Lady Morgan's Salvator Rosa - her enemies on the Continent - church sightseeing - Carnival - Marianne Hamilton - Fanny Stewart in Canada - alarmists in Dublin but it is…

To Mrs Edgeworth - the Butlers - visit to Trim - the vicarage and its furniture - bridal visits - the Jephsons - the bishop's preface for Jephson's sermons controversial - continued to Fanny Edgeworth - finances - (notes by Mrs Ruxton, Honora Edgeworth and Harriet Butler)

Honora Edgeworth to Charles (Sneyd) Edgeworth - limitation on franks - Lovell Edgeworth - explanation of Erse words in D.A. Beaufort's Memoir to a map of Ireland - 'Indur' - Christmas Box - Maxwell Fox - Marianne Fox - measles in the school - death of Mr Lister of Armitage Park - Mary Sneyd - William Edgeworth and road plans - William Hamilton - Mary Beddoes - (Michael) Pakenham Edgeworth - Chenevix's article - (end by Maria Edgeworth) -…

To Mrs Edgeworth at Bloomfield from Edgeworthstown - chimney fire at Edgeworthstown - saving manuscripts and documents - repairs - (note by Lovell Edgeworth on Maria Edgeworth's and Honora Edgeworth's admirable behaviour and by Honora Edgeworth on Maria Edgeworth's coolness, in contrast to usual impulsiveness)

Estimate from John Hutton and sons for a new travelling carriage for Lovell Edgeworth, with covering letter dated 27 Feb from Mrs Edgeworth on hire of post chaise for her journey to Cheltenham

Will and codicil of Mary Sneyd

Future bequest by Mary Sneyd to Mrs Sherwood and Mrs Cameron

To Fanny Edgeworth from Harriet Edgeworth from Edgeworthstown - comment on Fanny's letters - Maria Edgeworth's health - Maria Edgeworth's garden - Maria Edgeworth 'never in better health and spirits than when obliged to change her opinion every 1/2 hour' - Honora and Lucy Edgeworth - the Beddoes - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth's desire to leave Charterhouse - (continued by Maria Edgeworth) - comment on Fanny's letter - engraving of the sybil like Mrs Edgeworth - a priest, Rogers

Includes: (fols. 31-75) correspondence of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth and Harriet, 1833-1848 (fols. 76-83) letters from Frances Anne Edgeworth and family to Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, 1840-1847 (fols. 84-102) miscellaneous papers, 1803-1851, n.d., including (fol. 89) theatre programme of 'Old Poz', c.1825, and (fols. 90-94) Sneyd Edgeworth, 'Essay on the insane',…